Flare Stack

The flare stack is a machine designed to eliminate flammable or gaseous fluids, usually excess products or byproducts of processes like oil refining or drilling, and to recover small amounts of energy from their disposal. It can also be used for the voiding of non-flammable gasses, though the drainage pipe performs this task faster and for a smaller material cost and in world footprint.

Crafting

The flare stack can be made in the assembly machine with the following recipe:

Flare Stack

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Usage

When supplied with a fluid, the flare stack must have either the flow control valve turned on to vent to the atmosphere if supplied with a gas or have both the flow control valve and ignition switch turned on to combust and vent to the atmosphere if supplied with a flammable liquid or gas.

When combusting a liquid, the flare stack will generate 10% of the fluid's combustion energy value and consume 10mb/t of the provided liquid. When combusting a gas, the power efficiency rises to 20%. Each tier of speed upgrade will increase the amount of consumption by 10mb/t.

When venting a gas, the flare stack will generate no additional power but will consume 50mb/t of the provided fluid.

Compared the drainage pipe, a similar machine also intended to void excess fluids, the flare stack is much slower but is capable of marginal power reclamation which can prove useful for highly energy dense but more difficult to use refinery products like kerosene.